HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has told Justice Seamus P. McCaffery to turn over computers and other court-issued equipment, and moved swiftly Tuesday to cancel the Internet service it provides at McCaffery's Northeast Philadelphia home.

The order came a day after the justices voted to suspend McCaffery, citing allegations that he sent or received sexually explicit emails among other concerns.

Jim Koval, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania courts, said McCaffery and his staff had been asked to surrender all court equipment "posthaste" and that his home Internet account would be shut down this week. "We are in the process of arranging that," Koval said Tuesday.

McCaffery has argued that any questionable messages he may have sent amounted to personal correspondence among friends. The messages were sent from a private Comcast email address.

Records show the state spent just shy of $7,500 for Comcast Business Internet service at his home since he became a justice in 2008. The court also gave McCaffery a home computer, a laptop, an iPhone, an iPad, and other equipment — all raising the question of whether taxpayers footed any part of the bill when sexually explicit messages were sent.

It was not clear if McCaffery has a personal account for Internet service at his home. Through a spokesman, McCaffery has declined to comment.

McCaffery sent emails containing sexually explicit content in 2008 and 2009 to a small group of people, including an agent at the state attorney general's Office. The agent, who has since retired, then forwarded the messages to dozens of others, including top prosecutors, in the office.

McCaffery sent the messages from a Comcast email address, 1Fenian, which is now inactive. (Fenian is used to describe an advocate of Irish independence and reunification.)

Documents assembled by the courts at the Inquirer's request show that McCaffery was one of five justices with "home offices." Chief Justice Ron Castille, his rival and most vocal critic, also is among them.

Castille, a Republican, had been advocating for McCaffery's suspension and has said he believes the matter of the justice's emails should be investigated by a special prosecutor.

In an interview Saturday, Castille said that the court's provision of equipment to McCaffery, a Democrat, raised questions about whether he used state resources to send explicit emails. The chief justice said the court did not "police" how its staff used computers and said he would not fault any justice who used the equipment for, say, communication with a relative.

But, he said, "You're not supposed to be using court resources to be sending pornography. It's as simple as that," he said.

The court also pays for home offices for Justices J. Michael Eakin, Max Baer, and Correale Stevens.